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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47029	A sermon preached at Christ-Church, London, November the 2d, 1690 by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1690 (1690)	Wing J937; ESTC R31545	18,632	40

away his Poverty 4. A rich Man ought not to be proud because he has the greatest reason of all other Men to be humble For his Accompts are the greatest for to whom much is given of him much is requir'd His Danger is the greatest for he is set upon the most slippery places His Temptation is the greatest for he is most like to be Proud which is the greatest of all Sins His Care is the greatest for he pierceth himself through with most Sorrows And yet for all this his Hopes and his Incomes are the least for it seldom happens that the Riches of this World and those of the next go together The Happiness of Dives and Lazarus being scarce ever to be met with in the same place For saith Christ Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And again I say unto you it is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. xix 23 24. 5. A rich Man ought not to be proud because God will take it most ill from him of all others For there is nothing so common as to hear a rich Man say that his Riches do come from the Blessing and Favour of Almighty God and 't is usual for him to hug himself with the conceit of his Soul's Prosperity for his Temporal Success and therefore certainly he has more to thank God for than others have For God is more kind to him as he thinks at least than he is to his poorer Neighbours And therefore God being most kind to the Rich man and the proud Rich man being the most odious and the most ungrateful to Almighty God it is but reasonable that God should take it most ill from him of all others And therefore 't is that when God raises a Man up to great Riches and Honour and he does thereupon become proud and looks big upon 't GOD is so far concern'd at it that though he giveth to all Men liberally and upbraideth not yet he cannot chuse but upbraid and reproach such a one openly to his face Have I done so and so to thee and hast thou requited me thus for it And instead of humbling thy self before me hast lift up thy Heel against me and hast preferr'd my Gifts before my self Which to any Man of common Sense and Ingenuity is worse than a Mortal Stab worse than Death 6. A rich Man ought not to be proud because that 's the way to have his Riches taken from him which to a Worldling One would think might be a sufficient Argument against Pride when all others fail'd For he that is proud takes much upon him and thinks well of himself and expects a great deal of Honour shou'd be shewn him And whoever honours himself does rob God to whom all Honour and Glory does of Right belong And he that robs God may be sure to be robbed by God For as God becomes froward towards them that are froward and as he lightly sets by those that regard him not so likewise the coming of God upon the Robber of his Honour will be that of a Thief both for its suddenness and its violence And when God takes all away What can be left 7. A Rich Man ought not to be proud because he that is proud of his Riches makes his Gold his God and adores an Idol And an Idol we all know is nothing in the World and what an admirable Fool is he that 's proud ev'n of nothing And what an excellent Bargain does that Man make that parts with Omnipotence for that which is nothing and exchanges God for that which is not yea and much worse too exchanges him for the Devil who was the first Author of Pride and this is such an Affront and God takes it so heinously and resents it so terribly that the Angels who were first guilty of it were thrust out of Heaven and were not so much as suffer'd to abide in any part of all God's Creation but were tumbled down into Hell which as well as Death and Sin that are the causes of it is a Place that God never made And 't is remarkable that as a Proud Rich Man does change the Glory of the Incorruptible God into this or that Piece of Gold So likewise God fits him with a Punishment accordingly as is plain from Nebuchadnezzar's Case who for his Pride from a Man became a Beast And 't is as remarkable That when God does punish a proud Man he scorns to let him have so Honourable a Death as that of the Sword and therefore he sends either Frogs or Lice or some such contemptible Creatures to pull down his Pride and to level him with his Native Earth and his Primitive Dust and Ashes And 't is well nigh as remarkable that as David says A Proud Man should not tarry in his sight so likewise God is resolv'd to shew the same Indignation against him by thrusting him if possible out of his Sight too into utter Darkness Lastly A Rich Man ought not to be proud because he that is proud neither now is nor can scarce ever be a true Christian For that no proud Man is now a true Christian is plain for he that is proud thinks he has something to be proud of and he that thinks so can never think himself an unprofitable Servant He that is proud thinks himself well and he that thinks so can never go to the Physitian which none but the Sick have need of He that is proud careth not for God neither is God in all his Thoughts Psal 10.4 And he that careth not for God is not likely to cast all his Care upon him and to part with his Profit and his Pleasure and his Pride and his Life and his All for God's Sake He that is proud in heart is an Abomination to the Lord. Prov. xvi 5 And God resisteth the proud Jam. iv 6 And scorneth the scorners Prov. iii. 34 And those who are an abomination to God and whom God resisteth and scorneth are none of those dear Children of his whom he loves as the Apple of his Eye and as the Signet upon his right hand And besides all this he that is proud is the Child of that Father whose Works he doth the Devil and he follows him in that which was his first his greatest Sin his Pride and he that is guilty of as great a Sin as the Devil himself can possibly be guilty of can come into God's house no other way than the Devil does in disguise And how such a one can be a true Christian or how he has any more Right to God's Church than the Devil had to Heaven when he was thrust out thence for his Pride I dare adventure to let the proud Man himself be Judge of From whence 't is plain that no proud Man is now a true Christian and that he can scarce ever be a